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Did you create all your SMART goals this week? Remember, no more resolutions only goals. How are your goals looking? Are you satisfied with them? We discussed this week the idea of not creating resolutions but SMART goals because that will give you a better chance of reaching your goals. The other thing about goals that you need to remember. It doesn't just take January 1st to get you motivated to create those goals. Something might come up in June and you will want to create a new goal. Now you have the tools to do so. You can also use your goal setting on your job. They might help you get the raise or the job promotion. Keep me updated on how your goals are coming for you.

T Hopefully for all of you it has been a great week of goal setting for 2012. Today we will be looking at the final letter in SMART. The T stands for trackable or timely. When setting that goal make sure you have an end point to accomplish the goal. Let's look at our weight loss example, instead of saying you want to lose 20 pounds put a date that you want to lose those 20 pounds. Lose 20 pounds by April first. Maybe something is happening in April and you want to look your best so you set that as a timeframe. What this does is helps you focus on the goal gives you something to strive for and an end in sight as you work toward that goal. It also allows you to track the progress of how you are doing. Twenty pounds by April will allow you to weigh yourself every week and know that you are making progree toward your goal. Of course be sure when you set that time to complete your goal that you also follow the SMAR portion as well. You could set a goal and an end date that is not r...

R We are almost done with our SMART analysis. How is the goal making coming? I hope the goals you have created are specific, measurable and attainable. Today we are looking at the R it is for Realistic. You need to make your goals realistic. It needs to fit in line with who you are and within the scope of the project. You don't have to try to leap that tall building in a single bound. You aren't Superman. Take it one floor at a time. However you also can't make it too easy. It might be important to create smaller goals that are realistic that will eventually lead you to your ultimate goal. Be sure that if you set small goals that they too follow the same SMART formula. By now you may have realized the if you have created a specific, measurable and attainable goal that it is realistic. That may very well be the case. The idea is to create these goals that will work for you yet challenge you to be successful. It is only you who can determine whether the goal is too eas...

A Today we are going to tackle the A in creating SMART goals. Remember don't make 2012 a year of loosely defined resolutions make it a year of SMART goals and you will be more likely to reach success. The A stands for Attainable. Your goals need to be able to be reached. You can't set goals that are so far fetched that no one could reach them. So far this week you have created some specific goals that are measurable. Often when we set those specific goals we make them unattainable because we want to reach them quickly. Take a look at your goals you have set for 2012. Are you able to reach these goals in a reasonable amount of time? For example: If weight loss is your desire in 2012 you don't want to say you will lose 20 pounds this week. That seems impossible to reach unless you are going on a complete fast. On the other hand you do want to push yourself with the goals so think of an attainable amount or goal that will still push you to success. How are you doing on ...

M Today we are going to tackle the M in the SMART goals. M stands for Measurable. Simply put your goal needs to be able to be measured. If you can't measure the progress and how it is going for you it will become too easy to give up and quit. How do you know if your goal is measurable. Take a look at the ones you wrote down yesterday when you made them specific. Are these specific goals measurable.  Are you able to track the progress of your goal and is there an ultimate end in sight? For example if you had the goal of losing weight first of all that is not very specific but it is also not measurable. You haven't listed an end date or an amount of pounds. As I said yesterday being vague about your goals will increase your chance of failure. Be sure that you are able to see progress along the way. That will help encourage you to reach that goal. Use this slogan when designing your goal to help you remember the M. "Make it Measurable and Measure the Makeable" T...

S Day 2 of 2012 and we are trying hard to make the most of those resolutions. As I said yesterday they should be goals not resolutions. We want to create SMART goals for 2012 so we can stick to them and make them last. Today we are looking at the S in SMART. The S stands for specific. Your goals need to be specific, they can't be general and vague in nature or you will quickly forget about them and not reach that goal. How exactly can you go about turning your resolutions into goals? First go ahead and write down everything you want to be a resolution for 2012. Remember yesterday I told you to have a Word document ready. Here is the first steps: Go ahead and write those resolutions (goals) down. Read them over a few times. Identify which ones need some re-wording. Maybe all of them do. Make sure they are specific. For example if you want to lose weight for the year and you have made a resolution to say lose weight. That resolution isn't going to get you out of Januar...

It is 2012 and I suppose everyone is blogging about new year resolutions. Of course many are also making new year resolutions and others right now 1 day into 2012 have broken their new year resolution. The problem with so many being broken so quickly is that while the definition of resolution is a strong and firm definition most people take it as just a suggestion or an idea. Thus making it more difficult to be resolve in adhering to the resolution. If we are going to make resolutions we need to be firm in what they are. We need to write them down and we need to keep that vision in front of us. Instead of calling them resolutions make them goals for the year. Make sure your goals are SMART goals, Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Trackable. For example don't just day you are going to lose weight this year. Make it a goal to lose weight and put a specific weight that you want to get to and put a plan in place on how you will achieve that goal. One of my...